Partition Ext HDD without losing the data already on the disc
I have an early G5 iMac 80gb HDD, Macbook and a Macmini
I have finally managed to get them all running the same version of ilife(08) and thought it was time to get them all running from the same hymn sheet...
I have been using a 500gb Ext HDD (iphoto,itunes etc) so i have filled around 300GB so far, the problem is I want to move my iMovie events/projects to the ext HDD to. I have followed the steps to move the files but I get a dialogue box telling me my drive isn't compatible with imovie. (iMovie 08)
When I check the Ext HDD format (using <apple>+i it tells me the format is appleshare...
So after that intro..... can I partition this drive and set aside say 100GB (178GB free) without losing the data on the drive??
Thank you for reading
Chris
Appleshare? That is not a format.
It must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) if not already. Reformatting will delete everything on the disk.
How to partition a Hard Drive:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
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